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Sam Adams rank	Thu Apr 16 18:51:22 New discovery: significant selection for intelligence(amongst other things) occured after humans left Africa. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10358-1 Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia By contrast, in the past ten millennia, we find that many hundreds of alleles have been affected by strong directional selection. We also document one-standard-deviation changes on the scale of modern variation in combinations of alleles that today predict complex traits. This includes decreases in predicted body fat and schizophrenia, and increases in measures of cognitive performance.
Pillz rank	Thu Apr 16 21:02:06 Seb gonna get so mad when he sees the part about light skin tones
Sam Adams rank	Thu Apr 16 22:00:04 That would require seb be able to understand this. There's a lot of big words in there.
Average Ameriacn rank	Thu Apr 16 22:13:58 Proof that Trump is more intelligent then Obama.
jergul rank	Thu Apr 16 23:25:57 Just wow. The study shows that "fixing" positive traits in a population has occured faster in the last 10 thousand years than it did before then. The sample population is limited in scope to West Eurasia. We left Africa 60k to 70k years ago. A conclusion we might draw is that the change corresponds with the widespread introduction of agriculture and with it task specialization. It has nothing to do with race. The only thing we see here is how your confirmation bias makes you stupid to the point of not being able to read an abstract.
Pillz rank	Thu Apr 16 23:39:21 Ctrl + F 'race' 0 results Then jergul posts Jesus Europeans are pathetic
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